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作者：Andersson, Ulf; Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro; Nielsen, Bo Bernhard
作者单位：Northeastern University
摘要：Many manuscripts submitted to the Journal of International Business Studies propose an interaction effect in their models in an effort to explain the complexity and contingency of relationships across borders. In this article, we provide guidance on how best to explain the interaction effects theoretically within and across levels of analysis. First, in the case of interactions within the same level of analysis, we suggest that authors provide an explanation of the mechanisms that link the mai...
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作者：Santacreu-Vasut, Estefania; Shenkar, Oded; Shoham, Amir
作者单位：ESSEC Business School; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; College of Management Academic Studies
摘要：We analyze the impact of language-based gender distinctions within languages' grammatical structures on women's corporate presence. Using four different data sets, we find that countries where the dominant language marks gender more intensely have significantly lower female participation on boards of directors and in senior management, as well as smaller female-led corporate teams. We also find that the gender marking of the language used in the headquarters' home country impacts female presen...
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作者：Jory, Surendranath Rakesh; Thanh Ngoc Ngo
作者单位：University of Sussex; University of North Carolina; East Carolina University
摘要：We examine the decision of private sector enterprises from developed countries to acquire state-owned enterprises (SOEs) abroad. Using a sample of US firms buying targets abroad between 1987 and 2009, we find that bidders of SOE fare worse than bidders of non-SOE both in terms of stock price and operating performance. We also find that the quality of the target country location as captured by the Economic Freedom of the World (ERN) Index greatly influences the choice of SOE targets. Interestin...
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作者：Sliwa, Martyna; Johansson, Marjana
作者单位：University of Essex
摘要：The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of evaluations of non-native speaking staff's spoken English in international business settings. We adopt a sociolinguistic perspective on power and inequalities in linguistically diverse organizations in an Anglophone environment. The interpretive qualitative study draws on 54 interviews with non-native English-speaking staff in 19 UK business schools. We analyze, along the dimensions of status, solidarity and dynamism, the ways in which non-nat...
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作者：Haley, Usha C. V.; Boje, David M.
作者单位：West Virginia University; New Mexico State University
摘要：Internationalization deals with expansion across space and time. Researchers have framed internationalization as market growth and expansion through foreign direct investment (FDI). We use narrative theory to frame a bigger, richer picture. Using Mikhail Bakhtin's typology of nine space time conceptions and directed observations of McDonald's Corporation, we show how multinational enterprises (MNEs) create narratives of internationalization to mitigate the risks of FDI. Competing space time co...
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作者：Boussebaa, Mehdi; Sinha, Shuchi; Gabriel, Yiannis
作者单位：University of Bath; Indian Institute of Technology System (IIT System); Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Delhi
摘要：The spread and use of English as the lingua franca of international business (IB) corporate Englishization has received increasing'scholarly attention in recent years but the focus has mostly been on the communication benefits and challenges of using English as a shared language inside multinationals. In this article we examine how English is used externally in the provision of business services and apply a postcolonial perspective to frame our analysis. Drawing on fieldwork in India within th...
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作者：Sartor, Michael A.; Beamish, Paul W.
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：The literature on innovation offshoring has focused on the dichotomous choice between two distinct investment strategies captive offshoring and outsourced offshoring. We use the concept of organizational control to investigate how differences in the informal institutions that prevail in the home and host countries influence multinational enterprise (MNE) strategy (or, the organizational control decision) with respect to subsidiaries established to offshore innovation. While the relationship be...
